The success which the ultrabooks are predestined force chassis providers to boost their production capacity.
A few weeks ago we got the information from the Asian factories who design the chassis for portable computers, and in particular the ultrabooks. The portable purposes and light for which the chassis is very important, but can also be costly for the manufacturers if they choose a unibody aluminum for example model. At the time, we know these same manufacturers try to other materials such as glass fibre. And it came to the conclusion that three possibilities will exist: fibre glass for the bottom-of-range, an alu exterior and an interior plastic and metal for the middle-of-range, and all alu for the top-of-range.
Toshiba Z830, the last ultrabook has spent in our lab...
Today, new information from Taiwan will in this sense, because one learns that large suppliers of chassis considering changing their production for the ultrabooks lines. That also confirms that they anticipate an evolution of the notebook PC market to the ultrabooks, that Intel is already taking 40% of the market next year. Thus, Bin Chuan company and Chi Cheng Enterprise expect both to an explosion of demand for chassis purposes and highly technical, and ensure to achieve a production capacity of 1.8 million frames per month for mid-2012. In addition, bin Chuan will open eight new lines of production on the first half of the year 2012, specialized in anodized aluminium.
